14:05 Tourist hotel-train to make demonstration run Berlin-Kaliningrad-St. Petersburg
A new tourist hotel-train, Talgo, will make a demonstration run from Berlin through Kaliningrad and on to St. Petersburg in September.

13:49 Saint Petersburg festivities mark its 301st year
The Northern Capital began celebrating its birthday yesterday. The festivities began with a wreath-laying in honor of Peter I, founder of the city, at the Bronze Horseman, the great equestrian statue to Peter in Senate Square.